PHILOSOPHY

Experience everything and to the fullest extent.

Por qué estoy en Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None! I've just heard good things from others!

Intereses

Archaeology and Anthropology, Crazy People, Mythology and Folklore, Religions and Worldviews, Caves and Forests, Trees, Rocks, Baking and Cooking (at least attempting to do so), Paper Airplanes, Art and Architecture, Literature, Music Composition, Piano Performance, Film, Old People, Nuns, Writing, Skiing, Theoretical Physics, Writing, Old Sitcoms, the early 90's, Languages, Musical Theatre

• arts
• writing
• literature
• folklore
• performing arts
• architecture
• cooking
• baking
• music
• piano
• skiing
• anthropology
• languages
• physics
• religion

Música, películas y libros

Movies
Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Annie Hall, Bonnie and Clyde, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Cabaret, Casablanca, Chinatown, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Clue, E.T., Home Alone, Murder by Death, Indiana Jones trilogy, Sunset Boulevard, The Third Man, Star Wars IV-VI, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane

Disney Pre-Pocahontas (including, but not limited to, Mary Poppins, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, the good cartoons, the likes of The Swiss Family Robinson, and even Hocus Pocu), Christopher Guest mockumentaries (namely Best in Show and Waiting for Guffman), Hitchcock (especially Rear Window and North by Northwest), Ingmar Bergman (especially Smiles of a Summer Night), all of the Muppet Movies, and really bad horror movies are up there on the list, too :)

Music
I'm a classical nerd, so here are the tops in that category:
Debussy, de Falla, Faure, Gershwin, Khachaturian, Ligeti, Messiaen, Poulenc, Prokofiev, Puccini, Scriabin, Sondheim (kind of "classical"), Stravinsky,
Rachmaninov, Ravel

Select musicals, namely those of:
Bernstein, Kander and Ebb, Rodgers and Hammerstein, and Sondheim

And I love the music my parents listen to:
Bacharach, the requisite Beatles, Billy Holiday, Carole King, Chicago, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, David Bowie, The Doors, Elton John, The Guess Who, Nina Simone, Queen, The Who

And, of course, the occasional trash

Books
Adventures of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Beloved, Book of Lost Things, The Color Purple, Harry Potter I-IV (of course), Of Human Bondage, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Putting on the Ritz, The Scarlet Letter, To Kill a Mockingbird, To the Lighthouse, Treasure Island, Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea; anything by Tennessee Williams, Eugene O'Neill, or Neil Simon

What about T.V. Shows?
Golden Girls, Looney Toons, Monty Python, Old School Nickelodeon and Disney

Algo increíble que he hecho

Getting a very cheap massage from Vaclav Havel and Yuri Luzhkov's personal masseur in Karlovy Vary

Taking part in a traditional Eastern Orthodox Christmas celebration while putting on a good 10 kilos in Bitola, Macedonia

Países que he visitado

Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Estonia, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, United Kingdom

Países en los que he vivido

Germany, United States